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(05/19/08 10:52am)
The House of Representatives passed a GI bill partially designed by College President James Wright that would provide tuition, room and board for veterans attending college Thursday. The bill passed in a vote of 256 to 166 as one of three measures within a larger war spending bill.
(05/19/08 10:50am)
In an amendment to its constitution, the Alumni Council removed language requiring the Council to submit three candidates for trustee elections at its biannual meeting Saturday. This amendment will ensure that the Council complies with any possible changes to the structure of trustee elections made by either the Board of Trustees or the Association of Alumni.
(05/16/08 7:33am)
Dartmouth has recruited seven students to begin testing the Xythos online file-storing system today. The system will allow students, faculty and staff to save documents in an online folder and share them over the internet.
(05/09/08 9:30am)
The presentation, titled "Sobre Las Olas: a Mexican Genesis in Borderlands Jazz," examined Mexican influence on early jazz musicians. Johnson read an excerpt from an article that will be printed in the Comparative American Studies journal this fall.
(05/01/08 5:56am)
The discussion group consisted of Kerry Lauerman, the news projects editor at Salon Media Group; Frank Rose, a contributing editor of Wired magazine; Neda Ulaby, a reporter on arts and culture for National Public Radio; and Jeffrey Young, a senior writer at the Chronicle of Higher Education. Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities Kate Conley moderated the event.
(04/30/08 6:54am)
A recent study examining the effects of college's athletic programs performances on alumni donations found significant gender differences in the giving patterns of former athletes. The study, authored by economics researchers at Princeton University and Stanford University for the National Bureau of Economic Research, was conducted at a selective research university identified as "Anon U." The researchers found that male alumni who played on sports teams as undergraduates are more likely to donate more to their alma mater -- both to athletics and the institution in general -- when their teams win conference championships. The finding did not hold true for female athletes. Similarly, the study reported that male -- but not female -- alumni athletes donate more if the teams they played on won conference championships while they were in college. Though college leaders might suspect that winning teams lead to higher alumni donations in general, the research findings did not support such a claim. The performance of the football and men's basketball teams at the studied university had a statistically insignificant impact on giving by non-athlete alumni. For both men and women, the study found that alumni often interpret strong athletic performance to mean that the institution is spending too much on athletics, and thus give less money -- producing the opposite effect from what might be expected.
(04/25/08 8:35am)
The presence of the enzyme lipoprotein lipase and certain genetic markers indicate a decreased chance of survival for patients afflicted by chronic lymphocytic leukemia, Nancy Kuemmerle, a resident at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, said in her Thursday lecture, "Fat and Cancer." LPL and these genetic markers correlate with two different subsets of the disease, one with a high survival rate and the other with a low survival rate, Kuemmerle said. She also presented research that suggests doctors treating other cancers could reduce the size of tumors by inhibiting LPL production. This implies that high levels of LPL do not only reveal the presence of these cancers but also play an active role in their growths. She concluded by advocating future research into proteins related to LPL.
(04/25/08 8:31am)
Jeffrey Fairbrothers, one of the students charged in connection with the Hanover High School cheating scandal, was acquitted of being an accomplice to trespassing by the Lebanon District Court Wednesday, according to The Valley News. Fairbrothers is the first of the students implicated in the incident to be acquitted of all charges. Nine other students have been charged, four of whom have pled guilty or no contest and two of whom have been convicted.
(04/22/08 7:10am)
Armstrong contended that belief in the existence of God is not necessary for universal morality to exist. D'Souza, on the other hand, asserted that religion is both fundamental to, and responsible for, morality. While the tone of the discussion was friendly, the debate became contentious at points, such as when D'Souza said atheism is responsible for the worst atrocities of the twentieth century.
(04/21/08 9:19am)
Edward N. Lorenz ScD'38, the creator of the scientific field of chaos theory, died of cancer Wednesday at his home in Cambridge, Mass., The New York Times reported. Lorenz, who graduated from Darmouth with a degree in mathematics, proved that complex systems such as weather patterns cannot be predicted because all the many variables interact in complex, subtle ways. Lorenz stumbled upon the theory in 1961 when, while using a computer model to predict weather, he discovered that rounding off a single variable by less than .01 percent drastically changed the results. To illustrate the ramifications of his theory he came up with the now-famous idea of a butterfly flapping its wings causing a storm on the other side of the world. Lorenz served as a professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology meteorology department from 1955 to 1987. His theories have had a profound impact on many fields of mathematics and science.
(04/16/08 7:24am)
Most musicians work with sound, but Larry Polansky, a professor of music at the College, will follow his interest in performance in exactly the opposite direction. As a recipient of the New Directions Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon foundation, Polansky will immerse himself in the silent discourse of American Sign Language in order to eventually study and compose ASL poetry.
(04/10/08 6:29am)
Dartmouth's Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection has completed a massive database of its research on cyber-security available to any student, researcher or industry expert across the globe with a valid e-mail address. I3P, as the institute is known, transferred control of this database to the Naval Post-Graduate School at a ceremony last month.
(04/10/08 6:28am)
Darwish, who grew up in Cairo and Gaza and converted to Christianity as an adult, addressed the "oppressive" effect of radical Islam on free speech and human rights reforms within the Arab culture. She said that in many cases, fundamentalism infuses Arab society to such an extent that the common people are more dangerous than what she claimed was the already-corrupt leadership.
(04/07/08 7:20am)
"Really, if you look at modern science, it points to the existence of God," Brudoley said, "God is demonstrating his existence through science."
(04/02/08 7:54am)
Admission rates across the Ivy League have dropped to record levels, The New York Times reported on Tuesday, including Dartmouth, which accepted 13 percent of its applicant pool. Harvard University accepted 7.1 percent of applicants, Yale University accepted 8.3 percent, Columbia University admitted 8.7 percent and Brown University also admitted 13 percent. The decline in admission rates is due, in part, to the increasing number of high school graduates, according to The Times, although many demographers believe this number will begin to decline in the next few years. Also seeing record lows were Bowdoin College and Georgetown University, which both admitted 18 percent of applicants. Other Ivy League schools may also have seen record numbers, but they have not yet released their statistics.
(03/31/08 7:05am)
Although the Jewish legal tradition has a 2,000-year tradition of condemning homosexuality, Rabbi Gordon Tucker called for the acceptance of homosexuals based on the fundamental Jewish principals of companionship and love in a speech on Sunday. Tucker framed his argument in the context of the larger historical divide between legalistic and intuitive interpretations of the Torah.
(03/28/08 7:12am)
LEBANON, N.H -- Joking that he was "making up for past family sins," Michael Cummings, a researcher at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute and the grandson of a cigarette company employee, criticized the tobacco industry in a lecture at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center on Thursday.
(03/25/08 8:14am)
A study conducted by the Chronicle of Higher Education this month found that Congress's 2008 budget included a record number of noncompetitive earmarks for colleges and universities. Two-thirds of the federal dollars spent went to scientific research. Earmarks are not awarded competitively but are instead designated by legislators for specific projects. This means they have little power to encourage competition or the efficient use of resources, according to university representatives speaking to Congress. This increase in earmarks has occurred as the budgets of The National Institute of Health and the National Science Foundation have declined and as Congress has reduced a proposed increase in spending for competitive grants. Analysis by the Chronicle of Higher Education suggests that Congress spent more money on earmarks in 2008 than was needed to fund the proposed increase in competitive grants.
(02/20/08 7:54am)
As part of a campaign to prompt student discussion about alcohol on Dartmouth's campus, Senior Associate Dean Dan Nelson spoke to the Student Assembly on the history of alcohol use at the College, the administration's attitude towards student drinking and its future plans for the alcohol on Tuesday.
(02/20/08 7:52am)
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